Chapter 202 Five surnames and three kings finally unite
The general location of Kesai City is near Namangan, the capital of Mangan State in what was later to be Uzbekistan. This is the most central area of the Fergana Basin.
The reason why the Fergana Basin is so important is because it has the most self-sufficient agriculture in the entire river region.
The basin plain has particularly abundant water resources due to the melted water from the surrounding snow-capped mountains, and the conditions for developing planting agriculture are particularly favorable.
At the same time, the surrounding mountains provide a large amount of mountainous land with lush vegetation, which can be used to raise cattle and sheep.
The Yaoshashui River (Syr Darya River) that crosses the basin provides extremely convenient transportation conditions.
You must know that it was difficult to build roads in ancient times. Most transportation relied on water transportation. Only when water transportation is developed can agriculture and commerce be developed.
Yaosha Water is located in the Fergana Basin. The river is wide, deep and flows at a moderate speed. As long as a few water conservancy projects are built to prevent sudden snowmelt floods, the conditions can be said to be unique.
With these excellent conditions, the Fergana Basin has gradually become the base of the hegemony in the river. As long as you can control this place, you can conquer all directions when you go out, and you can retreat and defend yourself. It is simply the Guanzhong Plain in the river.
Therefore, this self-contained Fergana Basin was skillfully allocated to three countries by the Russian government during the Tsarist Russia era.
That is, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The purpose was to ensure that no one could monopolize this blessed land of abundance, and that no powerful country could be born that could continue to cause trouble for Tsarist Russia.
At this time, the basin, which had begun to show its charm as a fertile land, was divided into three parts.
It is located in Andukang and its surroundings in the northeast, which was just captured by Zhang Zhao.
Yusup, the former governor of Bakhna of the Kara Khanate, controlled the most fertile land in the central part of the country, but seemed to be beaten behind closed doors.
And to the southwest, the Persian Samanid state Hakem Abdur controlled the Taniguchi Kuzhanti area.
Yang Tongyi, Yang Shouli and his son, Xue Shouli and Zheng Shouli walked through the groups of elite soldiers wearing blue and black cotton armor and walked towards the center of the camp.
From the defeat of Kangcheng in Andu to the march all the way to thirty miles outside Kesai City, King Zhang, who sent the horse general to save their lives, never summoned them. This made Yang Tongyi and the other four people always feel anxious.
With.
At first, Yang Tongyi thought that King Zhang would summon them immediately. After all, there were more than 7,000 people with three surnames in New Qiuci.
There are so many Tang children, let alone Anxi, even in Hexi, they are very precious. King Zhang has won their allegiance, why can't he come to appease them quickly?
However, after waiting for more than a month, the comfort they saw never came. The four of them could not help but feel their hearts beating. If nothing else, just seeing King Zhang, a warrior from the Fengtian Army's Fengtian Camp, shocked their hearts.
Because of this powerful army, even iron armor is no longer rare, and there are at least four hundred sets of blue and black cotton armor among them.
Yang Shouli had seen this kind of armor from Ma Jiangtou. It was light, strong and convenient. It was definitely the best armor he had ever seen.
Four hundred soldiers wearing cotton armor, coupled with more than three war horses, in Anxi, this is a force that can destroy the country.
If iron armor is included, the armor-wearing rate of the entire Fengtian Camp's 1,100 warriors is 100%, and the armor-wearing rate of the 1,100 warriors in the Baoda Camp can also be over 60%.
These two thousand two hundred warriors were composed of both horse and infantry soldiers. Each infantry soldier was equipped with two horses. Each warrior also had a donkey and a camel to transport other supplies.
It is said that it is a combination of horse and infantry, but in fact it is not worse at all in mobility than those teams that are all light cavalry.
Therefore, not to mention the more than 10,000 elites from the Khotan Jin Kingdom who were under the command of King Zhang, the 2,200 Fengtian Army alone was enough for King Zhang to roam the Western Regions. Do they have several hundred strong men with the three surnames of Qiuci? The question is really
Not big.
"Mr. Yang, please get up quickly, brothers, please get up quickly!" Of course, Zhang Zhao would not reveal that he had intentionally snubbed Yang Tongyi and others. On the contrary, he seemed particularly excited.
Of course, he should be excited. King Zhang still wanted to see them, but the shadow of the Guo family was still there, so he felt that he should be more reserved, so as to facilitate future management.
The more important reason is that Zhang Zhao's side has many soldiers but few people. Once these more than 7,000 Tang children get a stable living environment after returning to Hexi, the population will inevitably increase dramatically.
If they continue to stick together like this, I am afraid that in more than ten years, they will become a large-scale noble group under Zhang Zhao.
So he wanted to directly break the pattern of the three surnames in New Kucha and divide them from the very beginning.
"These two are brothers Guo Guangsheng and Guo Guangcheng. Guo Dalang was their grandfather in the past. This is Guo Tiance, the nephew of Guangsheng and Guangcheng."
After helping Yang Tongyi and the others up, Zhang Zhao introduced Guo Xuanli's two sons and Guo Tiance to Yang Tongyi and the other four.
"According to the order of descendants of our Anxi Army, I have to call my two uncles!" Yang Tongyi stroked his beard, with a slight embarrassment on his face.
The father of Guo Guangsheng and Guo Guangcheng, Guo Xuanli, was the posthumous son of Guo Dalang in the past.
Then Guo Xuanli's personal problems were solved too late, and as a result, Guo Guangsheng, who was in his forties, turned out to be the uncle of Yang Tongyi, who was in his fifties.
Not to mention Guo Guang, he is even younger and has become a veritable little uncle.
Of course, no matter how old you are, if you are an elder, you still have to be an elder. At that moment, a group of descendants of the Anxi Army were standing in line, and Zhang Zhao was introducing them at the side, and he was sighing in his heart.
At that time, among the five surnamed kings of the Anxi Army, the Lu family of Shule garrison, the Pei family of Shule king, the Bai family of Qiuci king, and the Li family of Li Yuanzhong, the king of Ningsai County, the governor of Beiting, withered, and even a hundred
Not enough people can get together.
Among them, the Bai family is the worst, with no descendants found and almost no heirs. The Pei family still has a few branches.
There are only nine people left in the Li family, including Li Qilang, and only two males. There may still be some descendants of the Lu family, at least the traitor Lu Sanlang is still alive.
But apart from these miserable four families, Guo, Yang, Zheng and the Xue family of the royal family of Bukhan actually persisted.
The Guo family has the largest number, with more than 5,000 people, followed by the Yang family with more than 3,000 people, and the Zheng and Xue families also have more than 1,000 and 2,000 people each.
However, despite the regrets, we have finally found almost all the descendants of the Anxi Army.
At the same time, Zhang Zhao's gains were not small. He took away three hundred men from the Guo family, including more than thirty who could read and write. In addition, the Guo family also recruited two hundred Nestorian knights for him.
This is a lot, because the Guo family itself only has more than a thousand members, and Zhang Zhao took away about 30% of it in one go.
As for the three people named Yang, Zheng, and Xue in New Kucha, it seems that almost all of them will return eastward with him.
Very good, even if he returns to Dunhuang now, Zhang Zhao still has nearly 10,000 people, 1,500 soldiers, more than 600 elite light cavalry and more than 200 armored cavalry.
It is not realistic for these people to fight against the Uighurs in Ganzhou, but it should be enough to go back to Dunhuang and seize power.
"A solitary city thousands of miles away is full of white-haired soldiers. Born as a member of the Han family, and dead as a descendant of the Tang Dynasty."
Zhang Zhao softly sang two lines of poetry, which did not rhyme much and had no literary talent. However, this was the best description of the heroic soul of the Tang Dynasty who had been guarding Anxi alone for hundreds of years.
Many people think this is an ancient poem, but in fact it is not. It is from the UnionPay short film "The Last Transfer in Mobei of the Tang Dynasty".
Guo Tiance, who was standing behind Zhang Zhao, clapped his hands, and a group of soldiers brought in portraits one by one. Yang Shouli looked up and saw:
The Great Protector of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, the Jiedushi Envoy of the Four Towns, and Guo Gong, Prince of Wuwei County, tabooed Xin.
The Great Protector of Beiting in the Tang Dynasty, Li Gong, Prince of Ningsai County, denounced Yuan Zhong.
The Great Protector of Beiting in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Gongtao followed the ancient times.
General Wuwei of the Tang Dynasty, ambassador to the Khotan army, garrison envoy to Khotan, and Duke Zheng took control of the country.
In the Tang Dynasty, the garrison envoy of Yanqi was appointed as the magistrate of Shule Pianzhou City, and Yang Gong, the general manager of Yanqi was photographed.
The envoy of Shule in the Tang Dynasty was guarded, and Duke Lu kept taboo on Yang.
The loyal vassal of the Tang Dynasty, King Bai Gong of Kucha, tabooed the ring.
King Pei Gong of Shule was cold and cold.
King Xue Gong of Bukhanna made a secret.
Only then did Yang Shouli know the reason why Ma Yaozi and Ma Jiangtou came to him a few days ago to ask for the portraits of the ancestors of the three surnames in Qiuci. It turned out that King Zhang wanted to use them here.
"Although I am not a descendant of the Anxi Army, I have heard about the deeds of the Anxi Gujun and the iron-blooded prince Guo Linggong from my ancestors since I can remember.
In the past, a certain great-grandfather, Taibao Gong, wanted to send troops to rescue him several times, but he failed to do so, and even let Pugu Junna and other villains take advantage of the loophole.
But today, God bless us and Tang'er. I can still lead 20,000 lions here and find the descendants of all heroes.
Before I find you, a certain Zhang Erlang regained his homeland in the battle of Shule, the battle of Poluzhou, the fleeing of Saktu, and the battle of Suiye. The Persians were frightened. Today, they will fight outside the city of Kesai.
It depends!
Because after fighting this battle, my mission in Anxi has been completed, and it is time for us to return eastward with the heroic spirits of our ancestors, so that their souls can rest in peace in the motherland that haunts us!
From today on, there are no people with the three surnames of Xinqiuci here, no Suiyeguo family, and no remnants of Dayun Temple. There is only one title here, and that is the survivors of the Tang Dynasty!
I brought the heroic statues of your ancestors here today just to let them witness with our own eyes how we, the descendants, inherited their bravery, killed no one without leaving a trace, and recreated the glory of the Tang Dynasty!"
Zhang Zhao delivered an impassioned speech, and everyone in the room was extremely excited. However, Yang Tongyi and his son Yang Shouli looked at each other, and King Zhang made it very clear. From now on, there will be no new Kucha families, only survivors of the Tang Dynasty.
So as the leader of the three new surnames of Kucha, it is inevitable that the Yang family's apparent strength will be damaged.
Because as long as they agree, they will lose the leadership of the other two families. Although the two surnames Zheng and Xue are still very close to them, they will no longer be a whole.
Yang Shouli had a faint smile on his face, but his eyes were tilted to the corners. He was observing Zheng Shouli and Xue Shouli beside him.
The corner of Zheng Shouli's eye also happened to glance at Yang Shouli's face. The two of them were stunned for an awkward moment, and then quickly moved away.
Xue Shouli didn't even look at Yang Shouli, but his face was filled with excitement of finally finding the organization.
Yang Shouli looked at the statue of his ancestor Yang Riyou, the governor of Yanqi, and then at his brothers around him, and scenes from the past emerged in his mind.
In the more than twenty years since he recorded it, Bugla Khan Saktu of the Kara Khanate, Yusup, the governor of Bakhna, and Hakim of the Samanid Persians.
They all regarded the three people of Xinqiuci as cattle and sheep born in the wild, and they oppressed them arbitrarily and even captured and killed them.
The root of all this is because they have no backing and they have lost their powerful motherland.
"Your Majesty! The descendants of Yang Gongba Riyou, the governor of Yanqi, are willing to obey your orders, even if they go up mountains of swords and seas of fire without complaint!"
After Yang Shouli and his father Yang Tongyi looked at each other, he was the first to stand up. He no longer used the name of the three surnames of Xinqiuci, but the name of the Yang family.
"Your Majesty! The descendants of Zheng Gong, the governor of Khotan, and the descendants of Xue Gong, the king of Bukhanna, are also willing to follow you to defeat the Persian barbarians and escort the heroes of their ancestors back eastward!"
Zheng Shouli and Xue Shouli breathed a long sigh of relief and stepped forward at the same time.
The Guo family, the Li family, and the monks and soldiers of Dayun Temple also came forward one after another, and Zhang Zhao nodded with satisfaction.
The descendants of the Anxi Army, with five surnames and three royal families, were finally united again in his hands after sixty years of separation.
